This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future study.

1. 'I have set out first the grievances and disputes:' Greek international law in Thucydides; Ernst Baltrusch
2. Thucydides and Order; Richard Ned Lebow (King's College, London/ Dartmouth College, Hanover)
3. Democracy without an Alternative: Thucydides, Sparta and Athens; Wolfgang Will
4. Leo Strauss's Thucydides and the Meaning of Politics; Liisi Keedus
5. The Power and Politics of Ontology; Christine Lee
6. The Fall of the Roman Republic: Sallust's Reading of Thucydides; Klaus Meister
7. Thucydides as a 'statesmen's manual'?; Christian Wendt

This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future study.